othercriteria comments on Rationality Quotes June 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 03 June 2012 10:11:44AM 22 points [-]

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

-Charles Babbage

Comment author: othercriteria 05 June 2012 03:19:07PM *  3 points [-]

Only if you're using a consistent estimator. (Yes, that's a frequentist concept, but the same sorts of problems show up in a Bayesian context once you try to learn nonparametric models...)